A wide variety of contemporary legal issues, involving all levels of public and private education, are addressed in the 20 papers in this volume. Written in law review style and including legal citations, the papers and authors included are: (1) "Who Runs the Schools" (Flygare); (2) "Copyright Issues in Computer-Assisted Instruction" (Helm); (3) "School Desegregation Litigation and the Financing of Remedial Decrees" (Vergon); (4) "Construction Management for Educational Facilities" (Goldblatt and Wood); (5) "Punitive Damages in Civil Rights Actions" (Frels); (6) "Interpreting the Education of the Handicapped Act" (Thomas); (7) "State Action and the Public Spheres Doctrines" (Batson); (8) "Section 1983 Liability" (Vacca); (9) "The Implications of 'Good-Faith' Negotiation Provisions for 'Meet and Confer' Laws" (Baldwin); (10) "An Instrument for a Legal Review of Public School Curriculum Policies and Procedures" (Zirkel); (11) "Academic Penalties for Student Misconduct" (Hooker); (12) "Faculty Dismissal" (Mawdsley and Permuth); (13) "Minimum Competency Testing" (Pullin); (14) "Arbitrary and Capricious Nonrenewal Decisions" (Phay); (15) "Recent Litigation Concerning Separation of Church and State" (Epley); (16) "Current Litigation Involving School Finance Issues" (Sparkman); (17) "Justiciable Performance Standards for Discharging Incompetent Teachers" (Clear and Box); (18) "Title IX" (Sorenson); (19) "Legal Challenges to Compulsory Attendance Laws" (Beckham); and (20) "Due Process Prevents Educators' Doing Only What They Should Not Do" (Wayson). (AA)